Hey guys,

so i was just wondering for those of you in the US and more importantly those of you over seas. what have you really paid for your S2k and parts.
weather it be less than the asking price and you got a great deal, or you had to pay more.

for example, i bought my first ap2 in the us for 18k
but what i really paid was pretty much 40k cause i live in jamaica and our duties
are 110% on a 2.2ltr engine... (it gets up to 180% for larger engines)

something as simple as parts, im looking to buy a set of volks, those in the states are call it $3,200 but i will end up paying 50-70% more, and thats without tires and without shipping. shipping costs to ja depending on how you ship it can be between $300-$1000 :/

i wish i could say i get deals, but those are few and far between.

so what have you guys really paid?

 

taxes in the US are just state sales tax i think and registration.
its usually less than 10%

I think you are paying for the customs fees?

 

yes, we pay for custom fees which are duties, we pay government taxes which are seperate and apart from duties.

 

I paid 12.5k for the car itself, and by the time i had the taxes and registration all payed off it was right around 14k.

 

I bought mine new. We get screwed over really badly with taxes and levies in South Africa. A consequence of living in a country with 3 million tax payers out of a population of 47 million coupled with artificial protection of our motor industry.

Brace yourself: $49700 at current exchange rate (ZAR 365K). All cars are expensive here vs. the US though.

Even cars manufactured here get taxed ridiculously. eg: a Toyota manufactured in SA that sells for ZAR220K on the local market is sold thousands of miles away in Australia for the equivalent of ZAR160K

Aftermarket parts attract between 15 and 30% duty, VAT at 14%. This is excluding shipping costs to get it halfway across the world.

The price I paid was back in 2007. The last model year sold in SA ('09) cost the equivalent of $60000 (ZAR440K)

 

2008 bought brand new in early 2009 as a leftover model for 27k out the door

 

@ Llew ... damn.
waht is the duty taxes you pay? you pay a %???

i know the only country in the caribbean that is worse than us is barbados (i guess becasue its so small) i think their taxes start at 200%

so you end up buy the car 3 times :/

 

Someone from Israel (croc?) was recently throwing around the same numbers as Llew. Blew me away...

 

In Colombia they pay 300% of the cost new and the car continues to hold it's value ...so you can pay allot for a car and continue paying that through it's life.

in the usa, calif.... i paid for a 04 model in November 03 close to $32,000 plus tax and license which is about 9% on top of that. I had a trade so I had to negociate that in to the deal..and i had seen S2000's for $5,000 over sticker, mine had a $4998 "dealer pak" on top of the sticker price, which I did not even discuss, it was just not in the deal...

I paid about $1250 less than sticker and I felt like i got a good deal at that time. Prior to that time you could not negociate on S2000's as each dealer only received a few of them and they were the most expensive car Honda sold at the time.

 

I paid 11.5k before taxes and all that stuff for my 2001 s2k with 55xxx miles. It came out to around 12.5-13k for everything.